Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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🧬🦋 New preprint out! 🦋🧬 What mechanisms underlie large-scale chromosomal rearrangements? Why do rearrangement rates vary so massively across taxa? We explored these questions in Erebia butterflies, a genus with extraordinary chromosome number diversity, from 7 to 52! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new paper is out now in Ecology Letters, completely open access! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... Many thanks go out to all of our co-authors, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it wouldn't have been possible without you @climate-adaptation.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment

We reveal widespread occurrence of seasonal reproductive plasticity, including reproductive diapause, in Nymphalid butterflies in a seasonal rainforest in the Amazon. This highlights that, not only i...

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Please share: last week to apply for a PhD position on comparative and population genomics in high elevation butterflies 🦋

Pável Matos@pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️🧬 The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: May 8, 2026 Start: Autumn 2026 (Czechia) More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Day 3 of the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Summary sessions brought together the ideas we’ve developed so far, followed by a visit to the entomological collection 🧬🦋 #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

🦋 SAVE THE DATE / RESERVA LA FECHA X Biology of Butterflies + IX Encontro de Lepidoptera Neotropicais 📅 30 Mar–3 Apr 2027 📍 Unicamp, Campinas, BR #bobelen2027 #lepidoptera #science #unicamp #butterflies 🇧🇷 Mais informações em breve / 🇪🇸 Más infos pronto / 🇺🇸 More informations soon

Huge congrats to Mar, who led this study published in @ecography.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ecog... Nymphalidae butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest was shaped by repeated dispersal, over millions of years, from Amazonia and the Andes, rather than by high in situ diversification

Brooke Zanco and co-authors found flies fed low cholesterol diets have greater levels of gut permeability and epithelial cell disorganisation than those fed high cholesterol diets. Lifespan was maximised on a high cholesterol diet www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share that my first first-author pre-print is out today! Many thanks go out to all of our collaborators, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it really wouldn't have been possible without you! 🦋

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700078v1

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 I’m excited to share our study presenting a non-invasive method for sexing sea turtle hatchlings via DNA methylation - the culmination of many years of work! Huge thanks to our fantastic co-authors, whose dedication made this possible doi.org/10.64898/202...

DNA methylation reveals evolved buffering responses to climate-driven sex ratio skew in sea turtles

Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), including all sea turtles which produce females at warmer temperatures, face projections of demographic collapse under climate-driven sex ra...

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Excited to visit Lille France for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Looking forward to present about butterfly wing colour polymorphism on Thursday at 11.30am in Salle D 🦋

Are you excited about pangenomics? If so, join us in Edinburgh on 8-9th June to discuss the latest methods & insights from using these approaches across biodiversity! More details here: royalsociety.org/science-even... Organised together with @henrylnorth.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social!

Pangenomics transforms evolutionary biology | Royal Society

This Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Joana Meier, Dr Henry North and Dr Charlotte Wright, will showcase cutting-edge pangenome tools, applied uses of pangenomes which are transforming health and a...

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It continues to be a pleasure to be involved in this project and I am eager to see what breakthroughs will follow from our work!

Charlotte Wright@charlottewright.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

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In July, our reporter traveled to the Italian Alps and to Barcelona, Spain, to observe researchers capturing moths and butterflies and then sequencing their genomes. It was all part of the most ambitious biology project ever: to sequence every species on Earth.

The Genome Revolution Takes Flight: Mapping the DNA of Europe’s Lepidoptera

An expedition in the Italian Alps unleashes advanced genome sequencing

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PhD position for Chinese nationals! London-based, funded by China Scholarship Council & @qmul.bsky.social "Ecology & genomics of climate adaptation: mapping functional genetic variation in wild insect populations" shorturl.at/Vfi8W DM for more info! #conservation #genomics #ecology #biodiversity

Whole Genome Sequencing Will Transform Our Understanding of Life. The Earth BioGenome Project is using cutting-edge tech like long-read sequencing to map the DNA of 1.8 million organisms. Researchers anticipate major discoveries in evolution and medicine.

Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology

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I'm looking for a postdoc to join the lab as part of @leverhulme.ac.uk funded interdisciplinary team working on butterfly scale structure development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Great to be involved in this exciting endeavour !! @projectpsyche.bsky.social

Project Psyche@projectpsyche.bsky.social · 11mo ago

(6/6)📄 In our new whitepaper (EcoEvoRxiv) we discuss our aims to coordinate this collaborative analysis of Lepidoptera genomes, turning data into impact for science, conservation and society. Now available at 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ProjectPsyche #Genomics

Very happy to present my research at @eseb2025.bsky.social yesterday! It was an incredibly engaging experience, with great discussions during the poster session and thoughtful conversations afterwards. Grateful for the interest and feedback! @eseb.bsky.social

Very happy to have had the opportunity to share my research @eseb2025.bsky.social yesterday - a great turnout and some great discussion afterwards! #eseb2025

Just touched down in Barcelona for @eseb2025.bsky.social ! Excited to present about reproduction (or a lack thereof) in Neotropical butterflies! Come and see my talk here: Tuesday 4pm in Room 131: S51-09 😎

First field trip of the #WG2 has come to an end! We will share some of the most relevant moments of this fantastic week! Stay tuned 🦋🧬

Another week another poster! Pleasure to present at the QMUL Postgraduate Research Symposium

Great to take my first foray into Pedagogy at the Festival of Education yesterday - lots of very inspiring scholars and teachers !!

Looking forward to giving a presentation about the evolution and mechanisms of reproductive plasticity in tropical butterflies at the ESEB congress this summer! Excited to hear about other implications of climate change on reproduction in the same symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social

👩🏾‍💻 It’s finally here! 👩🏾‍💻 We’re excited to announce the launch of our official website for Cost Action 10kLepGenomes: www.10klepgenomes.eu 🦋 We invite you to explore and stay updated with our progress in Lepidoptera genomics! 🧬 #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Brilliant time at the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting in Lund this week - lovely conversations and an even lovelier library

I had the privilege of sharing my work with some of the world's leading lepidopterists today - many thanks to @gmkov.bsky.social and co for hosting Lepinars year round!

Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @EvolLetters by Sridhar Halali, Etka Yapar, Christopher W Wheat, Niklas Wahlberg, Karl Gotthard, Nicolas Chazot, Sören Nylin, and Philipp Lehmann

Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies

Abstract. Quantifying the tempo and mode via modern phylogenetic comparative methods can provide key insights into how selection and constraints shape trai

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